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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Coming Thursday: Investigative Report on Ted Stevens Prosecution
By Joe Palazzolo
A federal appeals court won’t hold up the release of an investigative
report on the botched prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens. The ruling
by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit means a redacted version
of the 500-page report will likely be made public Thursday, as planned.
The long-awaited report, parts of which were revealed in court filings in
November, found that prosecutors engaged in “systematic concealment” of
evidence in the corruption case that could have helped Stevens defend
himself. But it stopped short of a criminal contempt finding.
One of the prosecutors involved in the case appealed a federal judge’s
order to make the report public. The prosecutor, Edward Sullivan, had asked
the D.C. Circuit to halt the release of the report pending his appeal.
The D.C. Circuit denied his request Wednesday, ruling that Sullivan “has
not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal.” The
National Law Journal’s Mike Scarcella has posted the order here.
A lawyer for Sullivan declined to comment.
The report is the product of a years-long investigation by Washington lawyer
Henry F. Schuelke III, who was appointed to conduct the probe by U.S.
District Judge Emmet Sullivan.
Stevens was convicted in 2008 of lying on his Senate disclosure forms.
Attorney General Eric Holder asked a federal judge to wipe out the
conviction after finding problems in the way prosecutors handed over
evidence to Stevens’s attorneys.
Stevens died in a plane crash in 2010. |
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